Playlist Regina Spektor

regina spektor - fidelity

I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost
In the sounds

I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind
All these words
I hear in my mind
All this music
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my ha-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-aart
And it breaks my ha-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-aart

Suppose I never, ever met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never ever let you
Kiss me so sweet
And so sah-ah-ah-ah-oft

Suppose I never, ever saw you
Suppose we never, ever called
Suppose I kept on singin' love songs
Just to break
My own fall
Just to break my fa-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-aall
Just to break my fa-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-aall
Just to break my fa-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-aall
Break my fall
Break my fall

All my friends say
That of course it's
Gonna get beh'uh
Gonna get beh'uh
Beh'uh, beh'uh, beh'uh, beh'uh
Behtur, bettur, betterrrr, ohhh...

I never love nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost
In the sounds

I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind
All these words
I hear in my mind
All this music
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart

I hear in my mind
All of these voices
I hear in my mind
All of these words
I hear in my mind
All of this music
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my ha-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-aart
And it breaks my ha, ah, ah, ah, art
And it breaks my ha-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-aart
And it breaks my heart
Breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart

regina spektor - on the radio

This is how it works
It feels a little worse
Than when we drove our hearse
Right through that screaming crowd
While laughing up a storm
Until we were just bone
Until it got so warm
That none of us could sleep
And all the styrofoam
Began to melt away
We tried to find some words
To aid in the decay
But none of them were home
Inside their catacomb
A million ancient bees
Began to sting our knees
While we were on our knees
Praying that disease
Would leave the ones we love
And never come again

On the radio
We heard November Rain
That solo's really long
But it's a pretty song
We listened to it twice
'Cause the DJ was asleep

This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath

No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again

And on the radio
You hear November Rain
That solo's awful long
But it's a good refrain
You listen to it twice
'Cause the DJ is asleep
On the radio
(oh oh oh)
On the radio
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio

regina spektor - us

They made a statue of us,
And put it on a mountain top.
Now tourists come and stare at us,
Blow bubbles with their gum,
Take photographs have fun,
Have fun.

They'll name a city after us,
And later say it's all our fault.
Then they'll give us a talkin' to,
Then they'll give us a talkin' to,
'cuz they've got years of experience.

We're living in a den of thieves,
Rummaging for answers in the pages.
We're living in a den of thieves,
And it's contagious, and it's contagious,
And it's contagious, and it's contagious.

We wear our scarves just like a knoose,
But not 'cuz we want eternal sleep.
And though our parts are slightly used,
New ones are slave labor you can keep

regina spektor - you ve got time

The animals, the animals
Trapped, trapped, trapped 'till the cage is full
The cage is full
Stay awake
In the dark, count mistakes
The light was off but now it's on
Searching the ground for a bitter song
The sun is out, the day is new
And everyone is waiting, waiting on you
And you've got time
And you've got time

Think of all the roads
Think of all their crossings
Taking steps is easy
Standing still is hard
Remember all their faces
Remember all their voices
Everything is different
The second time around

The animals, the animals
Trapped, trapped, trapped 'till the cage is full
The cage is full
Stay awake
In the dark, count mistakes
The light was off but now it's on
Searching the ground for a bitter song
The sun is out, the day is new
And everyone is waiting, waiting on you
And you've got time
And you've got time
And you've got time

regina spektor - better

If I kiss you where it?s sore
If I kiss you where it?s sore
will you feel better, better, better
will you feel anything at all?
will you feel better, better, better
will you feel anything at all?

Born like sisters to this world
in a town where blood ties are only blood
If you never say your name out loud to anyone
they can never ever call you by it

If I kiss you where it?s sore
If I kiss you where it?s sore
will you feel better, better, better
will you feel anything at all?
will you feel better, better, better
will you feel anything at all?

You?re getting sadder, getting sadder, getting sadder, getting sadder
and I don?t understand, and I don?t understand
but if I kiss you where it?s sore
If I kiss you where it´s sore
will you feel better, better, better
will you feel anything at all?
will you feel better, better, better
will you feel anything at all?

regina spektor - braille

She was lying on the floor and counting stretch marks
She hadn't been a virgin and he hadn't been a god
So she named the baby Elvis
To make up for the royalty he lacked

And from then on it was turpentine and patches
From then on it was cold Campbell's from the can
They were just two jerks playing with matches
Cause that's all they knew how to play

And it was raining cats and dogs out side of her window
And she knew they were destined to become sacred road kill on the way
And she was listening to the sound of heavens shaking
Thinking about puddles, puddles and mistakes

And from then on it was turpentine and patches
From then on it was cold Campbell's from the can
They were just two jerks playing with matches
Cause that's all they knew how to play

Elvis never could carry a tune
She thought about this irony as she stared back at the moon
She was tracing the years with her fingers on her skin
Saying why don't I begin again
With turpentine and patches
With cold Campbell's from the can
After all I'm still a jerk playing with matches
It's just that he's not around to play along
I'm still an ass hole playing with matches
Blowing out my wishes blowing out my dreams
Just sitting here and trying to decypher what's written in Braille upon my skin...

regina spektor - eet

It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song.
You can't believe it; you were always singing along.
It was so easy and the words so sweet.
You can't remember; you try to feel the beat.

Bee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-
Eet eet eet.
Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-
Eet eet eet.

You spend half of your life trying to fall behind.
You're using your headphones to drown out your mind.
It was so easy and the words so sweet.
You can't remember; you try to move your feet.

Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-
Eet eet eet.
Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-
Eet eet eet.

Someone's deciding whether or not to steal.
He opens a window just to feel the chill.
He hears that outside a small boy just started to cry
'Cause it's his turn, but his brother won't let him try.

It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song.
You can't believe it; you were always singing along.
It was so easy and the words so sweet.
You can't remember; you try to move your feet.
It was so easy and the words so sweet.
You can't remember; you try to feel the beat...

regina spektor - 20 years of snow

He's a wounded animal
He lives in a matchbox
He's a wounded animal
And he's been coming around here

He's a dying breed...

His daughter is twenty years of snow falling
She's twenty years of strangers looking into each other's eyes
She's twenty years of clean
She never truly hated anyone or anything

She's a dying breed...

She says, i'd prefer the moss
I'd prefer the mouth
A baby of the swamps
A baby of the south
I'm twenty years of clean
I never truly hated anyone or anything
Twenty years of clean...

But i got to get me out of here
This place is full of dirty old men
And the navigators with their mappy maps
And moldy heads and pissing on sugarcubes...
While you stare at your boots
And the words float out like holograms...
They say, feel the waltz, feel the waltz,
Come on, baby, baby, now feel the waltz...

regina spektor - samson

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Eat a slice of wonder bread and
Went right back to bed
And the history books forgot about us
And the bible didn't mention us
Not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first
Beneath the stars came falling on our heads
But they're just old light
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
Told me i was beautiful and
Came into my bed
Oh i cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
And he told me that i'd done alright
And kissed me till the morning light

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Eat a slice of wonder bread and
Went right back to bed
Oh we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
And the history books forgot about us
And the bible didn't mention us
Not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first

regina spektor - paris

I could?ve settled down in Paris
But the man who came for me
Took me by the hand
And said it was time to leave
Margaret atwood, she could not stop him
Virginia woolf, she could not stop him
The truth is I wanted to go
He is all I know, he is all I know?

I got back home from Paris
And he told me what I?d done was wrong
And though his speech was rather long
I listened like an obedient child
The light was coming in through the windows
It was a most familiar type of night
How I loved every streetlight
And I wanted him to kiss me

Margaret atwood, she could not stop me
Virginia woolf, she could not stop me
The truth is I wanted to go
He is all I know, he is all I know?

Sweet, sweet forever
I?ll comfort myself in my next life?

He told me that he couldn?t live without me
And I told him the same thing too
And though we knew it wasn?t true
We both knew it wasn?t a lie
The light was coming in through the window
It was a most familiar type of night
How I loved every streetlight
And I wanted him to kiss me

Margaret atwood, she could not stop me
Virginia woolf, she could not stop me
The truth is I wanted to go
He is all I know, he is all I know?

Sweet, sweet forever
I?ll comfort myself in my next life?

regina spektor - hero

He never ever saw it coming at all...
It's alright...

Hey, open wide, here comes original sin...
It's alright...

No one's got it all...

Power to the people
We don't want it, we want pleasure
And the tv's [?] try to rape us
And I guess that they're succeeding
And we're going to these meetings
But we're not doing any meeting
We're trying to be faithful but we're
Cheating, cheating, cheating

Hey, open wide, here comes original sin...
It's alright...

No one's got it all...

I'm the hero of the story, don't need to be saved...
It's alright...

No one's got it all...

regina spektor - apres moi

I, oh, must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours
I, oh, must go on standing
I'm not my own, it's not my choice

Be afraid of the lame
They'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They'll inherit your blood
Apres moi, le deluge
After me comes the flood

I oh, must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't isn't yours yours
I, oh, must go on standing
I'm not my own, it's not my choice

Be afraid of the lame
They'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They'll inherit your blood
Apres moi, le deluge
After me comes the flood

Be afraid of the lame
They'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They'll inherit your blood
Apres moi, le deluge
After me the flood

Fevrale dostat chernil i plakat,
Pisat O Fevrale navsnryd,
Poka grohochushaya slyakot
Vesnoyu charnoyu gorit.

Fevrale dostat chernil i plakat,
Pisat O Fevrale navsnryd,
Poka grohochushaya slyakot
Vesnoyu charnoyu gorit.

Be afraid of the lame
They'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old
They'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold
They'll inherit your blood
Apres moi, le deluge
After me comes the flood

I oh, must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours
I, oh, must go on standing
I'm not my own, it's not my choice

I, (oh), must (go on) stan (stan) ding (dong)
You (can't) can't break that (that) which isn't (isn't) yours (yours)
I, (oh) must (go on) stan (stan) ding (dong)
I'm not (not) my own (own), it's not (not) my choice

regina spektor - the call

It started out as a feeling,
which then grew into a hope,
which then turned into a quiet thought,
which then turned into a quiet word,
and then that word grew louder and louder
'til it was a battle cry:
I'll come back when you call me,
no need to say goodbye.

Just because everything's changing
doesn't mean it's never been this way before.
All you can do is try to know who your friends are
as you head off to the war.
Pick a star on the dark horizon
and follow the light.
You'll come back when it's over,
no need to say goodbye.

Now we're back to the beginning.
It's just a feeling and no one knows yet,
but just because they can't feel it too
doesn't mean that you have to forget.
Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
'til they're before your eyes.
You'll come back when they call you,
no need to say goodbye.

regina spektor - ne me quitte pas

Down in Bowery they lose their ballads
And their lipped mouths in the night
And stumbling through the street they say
Sir do you got a light
And if you do then you're my friend
And if you don't then you're my foe
And if you are a deity of any sort then please don't go

Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas ah ah ah
Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas

Down in Lexington they walk in new shoes stuck to aging feet
And close their eyes and open
And recognize the aging street
And think about the things were right
When they were young and veins were tight
And if you are the ghost of Christmas past
Then won't you stay the night

Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas ah ah ah
Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas oh oh oh
Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas ah ah ah
Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas

Down in Bronxy Bronx the kids go sledding
Down snow covered slopes and frozen noses, frozen toes
And the frozen city starts to glow
And yes they know it will pass
And yes they know New York will thaw
But if you're a friend of any sort
Then play along and catch a cold

Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas ah ah ah
Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas oh oh oh
Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas ah ah ah
Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas

I love Paris in the rain, I love Paris in the rain
I love I love I Love in the rain
I love Paris in the rain, I love Paris in the rain
And I Love I love I love in the rain
I love I love I love in the rain

Down in Paris they walk fast
That is unless they're walking slow
And in cafes they look away
That is unless they look right in
And in the gardens I'm getting lost
That is unless I'm getting found
And if you are the ghost of New York City
Then won't you stick around

Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas ah ah ah
Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas oh oh oh
Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas ah ah ah
Ne me quitte pas mon cher
Ne me quitte pas

I love Paris in the rain, I love Paris in the rain
I love I love I love in the rain
I love Paris in the rain, I love Paris in the rain
I love I love I love in the rain
And I love I love I love in the rain...

regina spektor - dusseldorf

In Düsseldorf I met a clown
His nose, it was red
In gelterkinden I forgot to frown
Then remembered again
In Paris I saw a big fish
Swimming slow in the seine
It made me hopeful that someday our
Water will be breathable again

In Frankfurt I heard ein zwei drei
Counting cookies and no one was shot
In Berlin stopped by the polizai
For drunk driving and everyone smiled
In Prague I knew I'd been a witch
Burnt alive, a pyre of Soviet Kitsch
It made me miss my moscow mother
It made me miss my new york nothing

In Montpelier I stayed in a château
A girl climbed into my bed and she knew no boundaries
And in Amsterdam I got quite crazy
Might have been all the tulips and canals
Or it might have been all that hash, and in
Barcelona - buenos dias, chocolate, le picasso
And in Brussels, clean-cut hostel
And in London, me and the french existentialists

In Corsica I floated away
All the way to Marseilles
I should have held an afterparty
For all the thoughts I didn't say
In Düsseldorf I met a dwarf
With bad breath and a really good tan
In Gelterkinden I remembered how to laugh
And I never ever forgot it again

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